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EMAIL CAMPAIGN · ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT INDUSTRY
Reaching the most inaccessible audience in finance and getting them to show up.
Chief Operating Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, Chief Accounting Officers at hedge funds — this is not an audience that responds to generic outreach. A multi-segment, three-touch email campaign to over 23,000 contacts produced open rates nearly four times the B2B average and directly generated booked sales conversations with target executives at investment firms.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
33.6% open rate on primary campaign across 46,000+ total sends to a cold B2B list.
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Post-event follow-up achieved 63.6% open rate on 18,000+ sends, converting passive interest to action.
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21.8% click-through rate — exceptional for senior cold outreach at this seniority and industry.
Campaign generated booked discovery calls with C-suite leaders at target investment firms.
33.6%
Primary campaign open rate
21.8K
Click-through rate cold B2B audience
63.6%
Post-event email open rate
Making 23,000 people feel like they received one email.
The contacts came from three distinct sources — each requiring a different message, a different tone, and a different sequence of follow-up. The unifying challenge was making every recipient feel like the outreach was written for them specifically, not blasted at them as part of a list.
The event itself a webinar on generating operational alpha through fractional resourcing and outsourcing for alternative investment funds required copy that matched the sophistication of the audience. These were not people who respond to "you don't want to miss this." They respond to precision, to evidence that the sender understands the specific operational pressures of running a hedge fund or family office at scale.
A three-touch sequence and a post-event conversion layer.
The campaign ran as three segmented sends — invitation, reminder, and final call — with each touch calibrated to where the contact was in their decision process. Performance was tracked in real time between sends, with adjustments made based on what was working before the next wave went out. The 33.6% open rate and 21.8% click-through on cold outreach to senior financial professionals reflected both the precision of the segmentation and the quality of the copy.
The post-event follow-up is where the strategy fully paid out. Rather than letting registration interest evaporate after the webinar, a second campaign reached everyone who had registered but not attended — 18,000+ sends with a 63.6% open rate, converting passive registrations into active sales conversations. The campaign directly generated booked discovery calls with C-suite targets at investment firms in the precise audience profile the client had defined from the start.
TYPE
Fractional Content Director
CAMPAIGN TYPE
B2B Event Promotion + Post-Event Conversion
INDUSTRY
Alternative Investment & Financial Services
SERVICES
Email Strategy · Segmentation · Copywriting · Performance Tracking